Wayne Helgason saw tears in the eyes of Liberal prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin when they spoke of his peoples’ plight. It was clear as day, he said, that improving the lives of aboriginals was more than political — for them, it was personal

Weeks ago, Tanya Buchanan committed to a few holiday parties and prayed she’d be able to find a babysitter —not an easy task in an Italian neighbourhood where there’s an apparent dearth of teens and every family has a nonna. The Toronto mother has desperately tried to find a babysitter in the area —just a […]

The former Supply Depot No. 1 of the Canadian Armed Forces is 800,000 square feet in size, and designed to withstand the force of a nuclear blast, which means it is, apparently, big enough and solid enough to weather the bad craziness of roller derby players pouring into it from all over the world this […]

The road to Attawapiskat is not paved. When there is a “road,” it is made of ice and runs atop a frozen James Bay. For the 2,000 Cree aboriginals living in the fly-in Ontario community, winter means access to the rest of the world.

The words spoken in the old cut-stone courthouse were quiet, meek and in boundless contrast to the leering swagger and antagonism displayed in 2007 during the height of the fiery native occupation in Caledonia, which was when the assault being settled here Friday actually took place

Roller Derby, a sport revived in Texas after lying dormant since the 1970s, pits teams of women who skate around an oval, with one skater on each team trying to pass the others — and the other players trying to prevent that from happening